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Restorative Justice: Assessing Optimistic and Pessimistic Accounts
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For informal justice to be restorative justice, it has to be about restoring victims, restoring offenders, and restoring communities as a result of participation of a plurality of stakeholders. This means that victim-offender mediation, healing circles, family group conferences, restorative probation, reparation boards on the Vermont model, whole school antibullying programs, Chinese Bang Jiao programs, and exit conferences following Western business regulatory inspections can at times all be restorative justice. Sets of both optimistic propositions and pessimistic claims can be made about restorative justice by contemplating the global diversity of its practice. Examination of both the optimistic and the pessimistic propositions sheds light on prospects for restorative justice. Regulatory theory (a responsive regulatory pyramid) may be more useful for preventing crime in a normatively acceptable way than existing criminal law jurisprudence and explanatory theory. Evidence-based reform must move toward a more productive checking of restorative justice by liberal legalism, and vice versa.
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- Authors
- Braithwaite, J.
- Venue
- Crime and Justice
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 25
- Pages
- 1-127
- ISSN
- 0192-3234 (ISSN-L)
- 2153-0416
- OpenAlex
- W2002788212
- Cited by
- 639
- References
- 64
- FWCI
- 288.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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